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Last Sunday, was one of those winter prison blues days when
being alone and isolated is acceptable even universal? Well we got out for a few things. Of course we went to church, who do you think
we are, heathens? Eric, my
brother-in-law and I planned on heading into the city to see Camper Van
Beethoven and Cracker who were performing at the Highline Ballroom, West 16th. I had a chance to buy the tickets on-line, but
didn’t want to pay the service charge.
We took the chance and we drove into the night, past Brooklyn and
arrived in the lower East side, made our way up the Bowery and across Houston
and up town a little more till we finally parked the car on the street. I enjoyed listening to Eric describe my
nephew’s basketball team. They are the
only 7 year-old team and are having a losing season. He realized the kids don’t care, after
getting clobbered and on the drive back home, Deklan (his son) asked, “Who won?” Back to the night… except for the gas, we
didn’t pay any tolls or for parking, but had to pay to get into the Highline.
Near the ticket booth was the bass player for Cracker, guess he was waiting for
someone. Eric and I saw Camper/Cracker a
couple of years ago at the same venue.
As if the past repeated itself; we walked up to the balcony, and where we sat at a table, and had the same meal as last time, small kobi burgers and
beers. If you don’t know, Camper was
David Lowery’s band till they broke up in’89 and formed Cracker less than a
year later. Their current drummer and
he’s been their drummer (both Camper/Cracker) is an old friend from my parent’s
block, Frank Funaro. Frank also plays
for the Del Lords and has been on a number of records as per his web site, Joey
Ramone? I need to ask Frank about
that. If I had to choose, between the
Cracker or the Camper set, I would lean towards Camper. I know more of their songs and the lyrics are
poetic. During both sets a film crew was
recording the show. There were a few times
when the camera man would get too close to one of the musicians and was distracting from the performance. I spoke to Frank briefly after the show. He was busy catering to about 20 guests he
said and apologized. No problem. I don’t have a set list for either band, but
wanted to share something. I will work on getting a list…I will…damn, they
played White Riot and Wasted when they were in DC? Really?
Thank you for reading this
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